Devin Kerr

Internet: I’m very sorry that updates have been so infrequent.

Here are some of the things I have been working on lately:

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Laurel Premo’s “Stung By the Nettle”, which can be found on iTunes here.

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Compass Records is to release Jeremy Kittel’s “Chasing Sparks” in January 2010, which I mixed and mastered in Ann Arbor (though Jeremy and I also did a number of remote streaming sessions together in NYC and San Francisco).

I really love this album all the way through—some of the tracks are almost unbearably beautiful, some are spontaneous and exciting, some are a bit of both.  Jeremy’s an unbelievably talented guy and a dear friend; check out the last track on the album, “The Napkin Tune”:

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“The Troubadour”, Drew De Four’s epic concept album will be available in iTunes soon.  I played bass on most of the album, which features some of the finest musicians I know: Theo Katzman, Sara Curtin, Tomek Miernowski, Joey Dosik, Matt Endahl, Katri Ervamaa, Mark Kirshenmann, Brad Phillips, Tom Torrento, Tyler Duncan, Christian Carpenter, Michelle Chamuel, Colleen Curran, Laurel Premo, and Aaron Wolf:

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More soon.

Working madly on Drew De Four’s 3rd studio album.  A lot of the album was recorded on my handed-down 1940’s upright:

Finishing up Jeremy Kittel’s album at the end of July

Tyler Devos comes in the studio with Christian Carpenter and Theo Katzman (both of My Dear Disco fame) next week

Inkblot’s 2nd studio release is being duplicated now!

Also working on a number of projects with great NYC studio, RE•EQ…

Check them out!

Check out the Future Fruit EP from Brooklyn artist Halolos.  Brainchild of idiosyncratic musician/composer Laurel Chartow, I mixed the album at Good Hertz in Ann Arbor.

I’m working on Inkblot’s second studio album, here’s a rough track which was co-written by myself and the band just yesterday.  Synth solo = Van Halen + N64 Rainbow Road.

And one final rough cut, a diverse collaboration in progress between myself and drum phenom, Dan Sutherland.  Not all the tunes are manic, quasi-dance songs…

Recently an article on the Create Digital Music blog featured “elastic~”, an object which allows independent pitch/speed control of samples within Max 5.  Surprisingly, the object sells for $20GBP, despite the fact that similar functionality can be achieved with Max-only objects.

So I took 15 minutes and made a simple patch and video demonstrating what I’m calling “Free_Elastic”.   This Max patch uses high-quality, FFT pitch shifting and is based on the standard groove~ object.  It allows for much more control and customization (fft size, overlap, etc.) than “elastic~” does, and it’s FREE!

Music = Don’t Stop – Scott Tolinski

Download the patches here.

Update: I’ll try to get up a Max 4 version of the patch soon and perhaps an update that includes granular-based stretching and pitch-shifting if people are interested.